Your second sentence is irrelevant to the question of avs, which are safer than human driven cars by an exponential factor.

Summers: "It's not patriarchy, it's cuz wimmin got slow brains."

Also Summers: "How dare this chica reject me! Gonna show her, eh Jeffrey ol' boy."

Denying the core of one's ideology in order to own the libs is, seemingly, the most libertarian thing one can do these days.

Trumpism is a validation in perversion of everything that classical liberals have been warning about for the last half century.

At this point, *not* crowing about your agency's abuse of power is the bigger risk! Gotta prove to the big man upstairs that you're sufficiently extreme in your pursuit of authoritarianism.

This is due to the lack of public civic virtue. Executives will abuse whatever power they're given. That's why the Founders created constraints, ie, separation of powers, federalism.

But I'm not sure we can long survive 40% of Americans not only tolerating but celebrating open authoritarianism.

For example, I spent years digging in dozens of archives to uncover the sordid story of how the Kennedy administration secretly targeted right-wing broadcasters with the Federal Communications Commission.

But Trump & Brendan Carr just go after Kimmel, CBS, and other media figures openly!